Hello Reader,
I am
Abdulmajid Alnouri a student at Neumont University studying Computer Science;
however, my passions extend into physics, psychology, and the world of
academia. I am far too curious to be content studying in just one field, but I
love computer science as it allows me to create my own tools to use (but that
is just one of many reasons).
Why Create a Blog?
I have
created this blog to serve as a creative outlet for me to write down everything
that is on my mind just like a personal journal. Only this journal is publicly
available for anyone to peruse and comment on. I hope to write some papers that
I will release here and hopefully I can get a nice discussion base going and we
can discuss the nature or consequences of some nice topics. The subject range
of my papers will seem random and unrelated, but ultimately all the fields are
connected and so I hope that my posts will not seem so random. This blog will
also be a place where I post progress reports on my projects, problems
encountered, and other details. I would like to think my suffering will at
least be able to help others. With this in mind I would hope to start daily
blogs and so this is technically my blog's birthday!
Happy
Birthday alpha Blog!
Readers
will notice a huge amount of future blog posts promised, and I hope that by
writing them down I become truly committed.
*I will
cover the names of my teachers for their own protection, but code names will
correspond to actual unique teachers. So Prof. Alpha is an actual teacher in
the real world, and he (a small hint) will constantly be known as Prof. Alpha
Today
Today was
an amazing day. I got a chance to speak more to a teacher I greatly admire
-Prof. Alpha. We spoke more about a project that he had conceived of, which I
will one day post here, and during our conversation he gave me some of his own
personal books to study and read, so I may be better equipped to understand his
work.
WOW.
Simply WOW. To think a teacher would lend me his own personal books that had
inspired and helped shaped him is truly amazing and I am so grateful for the
opportunity and trust that has been bestowed on my. In the future I will have a
discussion on the work I am doing and the books I was given but for now I just
want to get this sense of excitement out! I hope that this is not mistaken for
false superiority or that I think in some way I am better than my fellow
students. No. I am just happy that a teacher has taken an interest in me. There
are only a few things worse than going to school and being a number.
Random Tangent Aside:
We should
get one thing out of the way. Some would consider me a teacher's pet. I can
often be found near a teacher’s side talking to them. I would like to encourage
all students to spend more time with their teachers. They are more than just
instructors! They are humans who have lived lives just like us, and they have
experience that they might be willing to share. A project I am currently
working on was purely inspired with a conversation I had with Prof. Alpha that
lasted for an hour and half! Please use your resources. Teachers are so vital
to our growth as students that it would be a shame to just go on thought school
without some level of teacher-student interaction. If you haven’t’ talked to
your teacher I ask that you do! Consider this a homework assignment! Go and ask
your teacher what they used to do or what they worked on. You might learn
something or become inspired either way. Furthermore it doesn’t matter what
field, but I would recommend asking a teacher outside your field of study as
this will broaden your horizon.
Fin
I want to
end every blog post with something deep to for the reader to self-reflect on. I
think every day we should just a moment to self-reflect on who we are and what
we want to be. I think we don’t dream enough and so take this time to fantastic
what you want to be. With that I will leave you with a comic that should
hopefully wake some people up. (In a later post I will discuss the human
tendency to be satisfied with nearly any given situation and how humans will
lose motivation to advance their state of being).
Please
check out some of the other work of Gavin Aung Than. His work is amazing and
often times I will simply end with one of his works.So please self-reflect on
this piece of art (But hey! I already did some self-relfection above! What
is this? Too much thinking!) *this aside in italics represents a thought
the reader mighty jokingly have.
Final note I swear!
If you have any suggestions on how to improve my writing or
any mistakes you have seen feel free to tell me below and I will work to fix
it. Or how about something you would like to see! I am glad we have finally taken the first step in this life long journey.
